Reply To: Traffic tanked after a clean-up

[axelrowan]

Yeah, I’d bet money the cleanup shifted the support structure more than anything else. I’ve seen this a bunch — prune a pile of junk, fix some links, and suddenly the “important” pages lose a bunch of the little internal signals they were leaning on. Google doesn’t exactly handle that gracefully. I’d give it some time and not keep fiddling with it every day.